How to Read Faces [rare books]

'Practical and scientific physiognomy gives the most comprehensive theory of mind of any work hitherto presented to the world. It takes the position that mind in heres in the entire organism, and that the brain is only one source of the mind or of mental operations; that the mind and body are one and indivisible, and can not be judged as separate entities; that the mind is not shut up in the skull, as it taught by a certain class of metaphysicians. It teaches that the office of the mind is threefold, viz., to produce (1) sensation, (2) consciousness, and (3) ideation.

With the hope that these ideas may lead to a correct knowledge of man, and that this Knowledge may conduce to his welfare, morally, and intellectually.